The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-06-19


their place in the social ornament. We are
never inclined to lie captious; we laugh at rs
a folly what our wives and daughters con-
denim rs n fault; our 'withers are unwrung,
yet we still confess to the destinations of a
pretty face. We know, bless Us, from dear
experience, the exact value of one womans
opinion of another; We want our brilliant
little friend to shine; it is only the moths who
viii burn their two-penny immature wings
in the flannel And why should they not.
Nature has been pleased to sup ly more
moths than candles. Go to- Give the pretty
creature-be she maid, wife or wiC.w-a
showi AMI SO, my dear sir, while mater
fanilias bends her bl2sS brows in disgust, we
smile our superior little smile, and extend to
Mistress Anonynia our gracious Endorsement
ANA III glddlnesS Ii grateful, or IL Tony l.
fricndly-well, of course, we can't help that
Indeed, il rather proves our theory.
had intended say something, about Hop
Einsou; but really there Is very little to say.
He invariably good humorcd a few
ladies once tried to show him that he really
ought to feel worse than he did about the
conduct of his wife; and it is recorded that
Hopkinson, in an excess of good humor and
good fellow was so accessible that it is said
youns Delaney, of the tape department, con
fie'ed to Hopkinson his jealousy of "A rival
and revealed the awful secret that he (De
I.ancy1 had reason to expect more loyalty
from his (Hopkinsonsl wife, The good fell
low is reported to have been very sym
pathetic, and to have promised Delaney to
lend whatever influence he had with Mrs
IIopkinson in his favor. you see," he said
explanatorily To Delaney, "she has good
deal to attend to lately, and, suppose, has
got rather careless-that's women's way But
if | can't bring her round I'll speak to Cash
wiler-i1l get him TO his influence with
Mrs. Hop SO cheer up, my boy; he'll make
it all right"
The appearance of a bouquet on the table
of Mrs. Hopkinson was no rare event; never
theless, MIR. CashwileI's was not there. Its
hiccous contrasts had offended her woman's
eye-it is observable that good taste survives
tha wreck of all the other feminine virtues
and she had distributed it to make bouton-
nieres for other gentlemen Yet, when he
appeared, she said to him hastily, putting her
little hand over the cardiac region:
I'm so glad you came. But you gave me
such fright an hour ago"
Mr.. Gashwiler both pleased and as
founded. "Whar have done, my dear Mrs.
Hopkinsonf' he began.
~Oh, don't talk" she said. sadly What
have you done, indeed! Why, you sent me
that beautiful bouquet. 1 could not mistake
your taste in the arrangement of the flowers;
but my husband was here. You know his
jealousy. / was obliged to conceal it from
him. Nerrr-promise me now-ner y do it
again"
Mr.. Gashwiler calamity protested.
Not l am serious. l was so agitated; ha
must have seen me blush"
Nothing but the gross flattery of this speech
could have clouded its manifest absurdity to
the Gashwiler consciousness. But Mr.. Cash
wiler had already succumbed to the girlish
half timidity with which it was uttered
Nevertheless, he could not help saying:
~But why should he be so jealous nowI
Only day before yesterday saw Simpson, of
Duluth, hand you a nosegay right before
himv'
"Ah," returned the lady, "he was outwartlly
calm then, but you know nothing of the
scene that occurred between US after you
left"
sfBut," gaspcd the practical Gashwiler,
"Simpson had given your husband that con-
tract-a cool fifty Thousand in his pocketI7
Mrs, Hopkinson looked as dignifiedly at
Gashwiler as was consistent with five feet
three the extra three inches being pyramidal
structure of straw-colored hair, frond of
faint curls, a pair of laughing blue eyes and Il
small belted waist. Then she sail, with n
casting down of her lids:
"You forget that my husband loves me-"
and for once the mink appeared to look peni-
tent. Itwas becoming; but as it had been
originally practiced in simple white dress,
relieved only with pale-blue ribbons, it was
not entirely I'm keeping with beflounced laven-
der and rose-colored trimmings Vet the
woman who hesitates between her moral ex-
preston and the harmony of her dress is lost
And Mrs. Hopkinson was victrix by her very
audacity.
Mr.. Gashwiler was battered The most dis
solute man likes the appearance of virtue
But graces and accomplishments like
yours, dear Mrs. Hopkinson," he said
oleaginously, "belong To the whole coun-
try" Which, with something between
II courtesy and a strut, he enieavored to rep
resent And | shall want to avail myself
OF all, ;" he added, I'm the matter OF the Castro
Cls.in- y little supper at Welcker's, n glass
or two of champagne, and single flash of
those bright eyes, and the thing is DONE
But" sail Mrs. Hopkinson, Il have prom
ise,l Josiah that / wound give up all those
frivolities, and, although my conscience is
clear, you know how people talk. Josiah
hears it. Why, only last night, at a recep-
ton ut the PatagoniaII minister's, every
woman in the room gossiped about me be-
cause | lei tho german with him. As if a
married woman, whose husband was in
tcrystcd in the government could not be civil
to tine representative of friendly power"
Alr. GaShwiler did not see how Mr.. Hop
si'ison'a Late contract for supplying salt pork
anil canned provisions to the army OF tine
United States should make his wife srIscep-
tialo TO the advances of foreign princes; but
he pru,lcntly kept that To himself Still not
being himself diplomat, he could not help
slyn-:
~But understood that Mr.. Hopkirlson did
not object to your interesting yourself in this
claim, ami you know some of the stock -"
The la.ly started, and said:
stock Dear Mr.. Gashwiler, for heavens
sake doa't mention that hideous name to me.
STOCK, am sick of it. Have you gentlemen
no Other topic for lady"
Sho punctuated her sentence with a mis-
chievous look at her interlocutor. For a
second time, regret to say, that Mr.. Cash
wiler succumbcd. The Roman constituency
at Renus, it is To be hoped, We're happily
ignorant of this last detection of their great
legislator Mr.. Gsshwiier instantly forgot
his thcme-began to ply the lady with a Ger
tain l.pvine-lke gallantry, which it is To he
sail t. her credit she parried with playful,
terrier-like dexterity, when the servant sud
denly announced, MIR. Wiles"
lsashykil ..r starfel Not 50 Mrs Hnnkln-